God give me patience, to reconcile with what I am not able to changeGive me strength to change what I canAnd give me wisdom to distinguish one from another.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them.

Every dead body that is not exterminated, gets up and kills. The people it kills, get up and kill!

The universe whispers, “I love you.

Long ago made it a principle of my life to cultivate a positive frame of mind, to strive to project it and to share it with those I meet. It is a principle that has served me well.

Obviously, I've made statements that were ludicrous and crazy and outrageous and all those things, because that's the way I always was.

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.

Racquetball is the only sport where simultaneously you can be looking at the ball and it'll hit you in the back of the head at 90 miles per hour.

The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.

Our hearts can always be in the same place, centered on God.

I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.